Our Lady Star of the Sea

Our Lady Star of the Sea is a Roman Catholic church in Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey. It was first built in 1848 and moved across Washington Street following the Great Fire of 1878, and the first mass was celebrated that same year. The church was built in Gothic style with Romanesque influences, and it was renovated in the 1970s, when a new altar was constructed. In 1971, Washington Street was opened to traffic, and the church was visited by thousands of tourists yearly.